5800 or 9800? Unlimited budget, forecasting for one year out.
I would say 9800. ATIs drivers get better all the time and the 5800 got fairly unimpressive reviews.
– Xaroc
I’d pick up a cheaper 9700-- the 9800 is a replacement for the 9700, not an additional model. It’s going to be more expensive even though it offers basically no performance improvement other than relatively minor clock rate bumps. If you can clock the 9700 at the same rate as the 9800, it’s 95% as fast for probably 70% of the price.
That’s a savings of 25%!
Right, you can clock the 9700 to 9800 speeds and then the 9800 will overclock way past what the 9700 can do.
Basically though:
On a budget but feeling lavish? Go 9700.
Money no object? 9800.